Mingshi

Chapter 1532 Ma Fang's Hesitation

In his view, after Emperor Longqing succeeded to the throne, Gao Gong would soon become the chief assistant of the cabinet.However, he did not expect that Xu Jie would have such an ability to create a situation that could rival Emperor Longqing through the layout of the will.And looking at it now, Xu Jie may suppress Emperor Longqing in the future, or even evade Emperor Longqing.

Of course, there are great difficulties in this, after all, the cabinet is not monolithic with Xu Jie, there are Gao Gong and Luo Xin.

However, now he is really disappointed with Gao Gong.Thinking about it carefully, after Emperor Longqing succeeded to the throne, Xu Jie created a new situation, while Gao Gong actually did not have any innovations in terms of personal ability, nor did he gain much favor from Emperor Longqing.It was this Shangzhu Kingdom that Luo Xin fought for him.

But look at Roshin again.

During more than half a year after Emperor Longqing succeeded to the throne, he went from the minister of the Ministry of Rites to the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and entered the cabinet.Become a big member of a party, and there are indeed a group of officials gathered around, although those officials are still very weak.But he is also better than Ma Fang.

Did I make the wrong choice?

What if Luo Xin was chosen instead of Gao Gong?
Ma Fang's heart couldn't help being moved. At this moment, he suddenly realized that Luo Xin was not only a victorious general in wars, but also never lost in political struggles. He was also safe and sound, and finally turned defeat into victory.

"Is it okay for me to join Luo Xin now?"

This idea popped up in Ma Fang's heart all of a sudden. With his friendship with Luo Xin, and even though he took refuge in Gao Gong, he had never done anything wrong to Luo Xin, he felt that Luo Xin would definitely accept it happily. He, after all, he is also a cabinet scholar, so the help to Luo Xin will not be small.

What I'm thinking about now is, should I change my family and join Luo Xin?

Ma Fang sat there completely distracted.

There was silence in the conference room, and no one spoke, because no one knew what to say.

In the end, Xu Jie, who was the chief assistant of the cabinet, had to speak. He glanced at everyone and said:

"Everyone go back and think about it today, everyone will come up with a solution tomorrow. Let's go."

Everyone got up and left one after another, everyone's face was not good-looking.They all seem to be preoccupied.

Luo Xin went back to his room alone, sat on his chair, looked up at the empty chair across the way, knew that Zhang Juzheng must have gone to Xu Jie's room, and looked away with a serious expression on his face.

He is also in a very bad mood now. Xu Jie's division of labor today made him feel the inherent advantage of the chief minister of the cabinet.Giving the work part to Luo Xin completely cut off the relationship between Luo Xin and the Ministry of Rites.He was assigned to the Ministry of Industry, which was the least valued, and also the Ministry of Industry, which had the least power.

In fact, this Ministry of Industry is the one with the worst status among the six.

After returning to the mansion at night, Zhang Xun, Tao Xingyan, Yun Zhiqiu and Haizheng soon came to the door.What happened at the cabinet meeting today has spread throughout the official circles. Several people silently finished their meal at Luo Xin's house, and then followed Luo Xin into the study room, silently drinking tea with teacups. The atmosphere was very dignified.

After a while, Zhang Xun put down his teacup and said, "No, I think Xu Jie has already made up his mind to drive you out of the capital."

Luo Xin raised his eyes to look at Zhang Xun, and said firmly, "As long as I don't want to leave the capital, even if Xu Jiegui is the chief minister of the cabinet, he can't drive me away from the capital."

"Yes!" Zhang Xun nodded and said, "But Xu Jie can make you hang in the air and achieve nothing. He has no right to speak in the cabinet, and everything goes wrong, and he feels uncomfortable everywhere. If at this time, there is a chance to sit in charge, such as sit in In the south, or in the north, are you going or not?"

Yun Zhiqiu said: "No, in fact, we all know that you and Xu Jie have a deep grudge. Your purpose is to push him out of the cabinet, and Xu Jie's original purpose was to dismiss you. Now it can't be done. They also want to squeeze you out of the cabinet. You two can only stay in the cabinet."

"That's right!" Haizheng also said, "It's the openness of the conflict between you and Xu Jie that puts you at a disadvantage against Gao Gong. Because he can join forces with Xu Jie at any time, but you cannot join hands with Xu Jie. He has a choice, but you have no choice. This is also your weakness. Just like the last time Gao Gong and Xu Jie teamed up tacitly and cheated your Minister of Rites."

Tao Xingyan sighed and said: "Xu Jie started to lay out the layout from the posthumous edict, and now he has restored Ge Shouli, Zhao Zhenji and other veterans, the general trend has been accomplished."

"Not necessarily?" Yun Zhiqiu said: "As Luo Xin said in the cabinet, the reputation of Xu Dang and others is not good now, and he, Xu Jie, is the one who flattered the late emperor. In order to flatter the late emperor, he embezzled disaster relief funds to build Yuxi Palace, forcing the flames to spread everywhere. This Zhao Zhenji is definitely shooting himself in the foot.

More importantly, they still have no solution to the money shortage, which is a fatal crisis.Now the Civil War crisis is approaching.Xu Jie's position may not be secure. "

"Then how do we break the situation?" Luo Xin asked softly.

The four of them were silent for a while, and Hai Zheng sighed: "One force will drop ten times, and now Xu Jie's general trend has been established. In the face of absolute strength, any strategy is useless. Anyway, I can't think of a way to break the situation."

"Then we have to keep a low profile and avoid it!" Yun Zhiqiu said with an ugly face, "I'll make a clay sculpture Bodhisattva in the cabinet."

"That's right!" Tao Xingyan said: "Xu Jie is nearly seventy now, and he is less than thirty, so Xu Jie will always be pushed down."

"No!" Luo Xin shook his head and said, "Yan Song has served as the chief assistant of the cabinet until he was 82 years old. Who knows if Xu Jie will be like this? It is not impossible to let me wait for more than ten years. But if Xu Jie is really given more than ten years, he He will manage the officialdom of Ming Dynasty like an iron bucket. At that time, even if he retires and returns home, he will definitely help Zhang Juzheng to the position of chief minister of the cabinet. And the iron bucket he manages will also be handed over to Zhang Juzheng. Not the slightest chance."

"That's right!" Zhang Xun said, "We must push Xu Jie out of the cabinet, instead of letting him retire and return home. Otherwise, we will have no chance for the rest of our lives."

"However, the strength gap between our two sides is too great." Hisun sighed.

"Don't be discouraged." Zhang Xun stood up and said, "If we don't have confidence, even if we have a plan, we will fail. But if we have confidence, even if it is a dead end, we will find a new path.

When His Majesty inherited the Great Treasure, everyone believed that Xu Jie had reached a dead end.But look at Xu Jie, he created a new situation out of nowhere.If he can do it, why can't we? "

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